Podcast
Two Podcasts. One Platform.
Questions and conversations that help the church think and live with a mature, uncompromising faith.
The flagship podcast hosts extended conversations with theologians, biblical scholars, and pastors on the questions raised as Christians seek to live faithfully within a world that encourages them not to. Into the Text, coming soon, slows down over whole books and hard passages of the Bible, reading them closely, in context, and against ourselves.
Two shows, one aim: unsettling convention and cultivating conviction by reading Scripture as the final authority for life and faith.
Flagship Podcast
Thinking Christian
A long-form, conversational podcast with theologians, biblical scholars, and pastors, arranged as thematic series that allow listeners to dive deep into biblical, theological, and ministry-related topics. Theological discernment is a communal practice; the conversational format is the work, not the wrapper.
These are not hot takes. They are informed perspectives offered to inform God's people as they pursue a mature, uncompromising faith.
Recent Series
The Diagnosis
A seven-part series on the forces and conditions that narrow the church's vision. James Spencer and Ashish Varma work through the three forces that capture the church inside a story claiming more completeness than it has, and the two conditions that make those forces harder to see.
See the series →Starting points:
Bible Podcast (Coming Soon)
Thinking Christian: Into the Text
Reading the Bible closely, in context, and against ourselves. Each series slows down over a book or a stretch of Scripture and asks what the text actually says, how it fits the larger story of the Bible, and how it reads us as much as we read it.
For pastors, students, and thoughtful Christians who want more than a devotional thought and less than a seminary lecture.
Opening series
With Michelle Keener, PhD. Reading the Book of Job through the lens of suffering and trauma.
The Old Testament
With Ashish Varma, PhD. From creation to covenant in the opening chapters of the Bible.
Where to start
New listeners can start with any episode. The platform's recent series offer natural entry points for the long-form podcast; the foundational questions (coming soon) offer entry points into the catechism.
Featured Guests
Scholars and Practitioners Bridging the Gap between Academic Study and the Everyday Lives of God's People
The people who come on Thinking Christian share a commitment to careful exegesis, theological seriousness, and the conviction that scholarship is not the property of the academy.
Carmen Joy Imes, PhD
Talbot School of Theology, Biola University
Michelle Keener, PhD
Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology
Gregg Quiggle, PhD
Moody Bible Institute (Ret.)
Benjamin Matthew, PhD
Columbia International University
Shane J. Wood, PhD
Ozark Christian College
May Young, PhD
Taylor University
Beth Allison Barr, PhD
Baylor University
Derek Schuurman, PhD
Calvin University
Ingrid Faro, PhD
Northern Seminary
Jeffrey Barbeau, PhD
Wheaton College